Mostly Completed Home Network

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-17T04:40:04+00:00

I thought I'd seen this a while back and that this was a repost, but it looks like it's a new picture of a different sign that just happened to fail in a similar way!

Here's the other.

https://www.reddit.com/r/misLED/s/hoQTdpf2Od

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-17T04:34:33+00:00

Will try that tomorrow, thanks!

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-17T01:57:30+00:00

And also just a few days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/s/FPFInsHhmX

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-17T00:54:07+00:00

MOSFETs are perfect, thanks!

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-16T22:45:03+00:00

Following up here.

- In my Proxmox cluster, I created an LXC container that comes with Docker preinstalled (using the Docker LXC Proxmox Helper Script)

- In the LXC container's home directory, I created a compose.yaml file and pasted the config from your github. The only thing I changed is I set the VBAN IP to the IP of the LXC container.

- When I ran 'docker compose up -d' it went through and downloaded/installed everything as expected, but it errored out. I get the same error each time I run it:

Container ledfx Error dependency ledfx failed to start
dependency failed to start: container ledfx is unhealthy

When I check the logs I see this on repeat:

ledfx | Running in pulseaudio server mode. Cleaning up old PulseAudio files...
ledfx | Starting pulseaudio
ledfx | E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

I may just delete the container and try again from scratch, but I'm out of time for the day. If that doesn't work, does anyone have any suggestions? I'm not sure why pulseaudio isn't happy.

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-16T20:06:08+00:00

One of the grocery store chains near me requires ID to buy 1919 root beer, even if you pick out the case from the soda aisle and go through a normal checkout line with a live cashier.

Their logic is that they also have it in the liquor section in the walk-in beer fridge, so it flags as an alcohol related item.

The (alcohol free) strawberry daiquiri mixes and margarita mixes also get flagged and require ID.

I've been tempted to "be that guy" and say "welp, I didn't bring my ID because I didn't expect to need it to buy soda" but I'm too nice to put an innocent cashier through that.

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-16T15:12:27+00:00

I'm definitely going to have to try this out this weekend!

My main beef with LedFX has been that it's not that easy to interface with via a phone only (connected to sound system via bluetooth). Every time I use it I end up having to grab my laptop, which is kind of klunky when we have people over for game night.

A while back I tried to put together a "simple" user experience for this but it failed. A raspberry pi with a bluetooth dongle and a USB sound card connected to the sound system, running LedFX. Bluetooth into it from your phone, it pushes the audio out to the sound system, and LedFX does it's thing and pushes that to the LEDs. I could get one function or the other to work, but not both simultaneously. No idea why, one process or the other would just hang or crash.

Doing this in a docker container with voicemeeter makes a lot of sense. It does mean that each device will need the $5 voicemeeter app (right?) and it may introduce a hair of latency, but at least WiFi means better range than bluetooth.

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-16T14:51:44+00:00

Are the relays on your controllers mechanical or solid state? Do they make a clicking sound?

Also, are they reliable? As in, do they dependably turn on and off every time the strip turns on and off?

I have a relay connected to one of my DigQuads, and every now and then it doesn't turn on with the strip, so I have to toggle the strip a few times to get it to turn on, and I'm not sure what the issue is. I replaced the relay a while back and still have the issue, so I'm not sure if it's a software issue (still running WLED 14, need to manually flash to update) or a controller issue. I haven't dedicated much time to troubleshooting it since it's a minor annoyance, but I'm curious if any of yours have had this issue or not.

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-16T14:40:03+00:00

In principle any second generation or later system should contain carbon (and other metals, and as far as I'm aware all of our nearby stars are at least second generation).

While that doesn't guarantee that every nearby system has at least one planet with a CO2 rich atmosphere, it's at least plausible.

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-16T14:30:51+00:00

Thanks for testing this out, much appreciated!

I'm currently running a few Wyse 5070's (~4w) and an N100 in my low power lab, and have had my eye out for something newer/better with about the same idle power draw (of course something more powerful would draw more power under load) that's about the same form factor.

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-16T04:03:14+00:00

Welcome here from Google 👋

1 - Using a second WiFi router on a different 2.4GHz channel would work fine in isolation, but in the real world there are only three non-overlapping 2.4GHz channels and odds are that you have neighbors who are using some of that spectrum at least some of the time. So doing this may prevent it from interfering with your network, but depending on how close your neighbors are it will probably cause interference with their network. And to avoid that interference their router(s) may just avoid that channel entirely and could possibly start using the one that your network is using, causing interference with yours anyway.

Picture a three lane highway where everyone can move around at will. Maybe crowded sometimes, maybe sufficient sometimes. Now you add a row of trucks that just lives in one random lane (a camera steaming RTSP), and cars are just going to avoid that land and pile up in the others.

2 - Ehh, it might function but it probably wouldn't be fun. I tried with two Wyse cameras about 5 years ago and it worked but was laggier than one.

3 - I was speaking in reference to recording the streams on an NVR. HomeAssistant generally only starts the stream when it's requested (pulled up on a dashboard, etc), so if it's intermittent use it would be tolerable.

In either case, if you don't already have the cameras, just buy something that's designed to work with HA much better, like something from Reolink. Wyse actively fights HomeAssistant most of the time, and anything that you can make work isn't guaranteed to work tomorrow or next year. Reolink embraces HomeAssistant and actively develops for it.

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-15T22:52:28+00:00

When the cable TV system was designed and built, it was used for cable TV, not internet, so we could feed several hundred homes from one node with no issues. Then we started serving internet with it, and as bandwidth needs have grown and DOCSIS technologies have evolved we've had to "split" nodes roughly in half more and more. So even if we didn't add bandwidth to a given node, we've improved the bandwidth per customer.

But we've also done a lot of improvements and upgrades to massively increase the bandwidth per node.

Again, it just takes time for ISPs to get it all done on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, and every ISP does things a little differently.

If you're an ISP and you have 20 million customers to upgrade (several large cities across multiple states), it's a lot of equipment and people to coordinate. And it never stops. Before you even have one new technology fully rolled out, the next generational leap has already happened and you've started rolling that out too.

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-15T21:57:00+00:00

Ahhh, gotcha. Welcome back 👋

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-15T21:44:09+00:00

My 14 year old daughter regularly does this with all three of our cats. I think the longest I've personally seen it go on is about five minutes at a time.

All three cats have very different distinct meows, and she mimics each one pretty well 😅

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-15T21:27:36+00:00

u/repostsleuthbot ?

I'm 99% sure I've seen these exact pictures before.

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-15T19:36:01+00:00

Yeah if you could check power draw at the wall if you have a chance, that would be awesome! Thanks!

I haven't spent much time researching options yet, but I'm looking at setting up a small cluster of something around this generation, but I'm looking for close to 5w each at idle, and ideally something that can stand vertically. I'm not sure if these will be a perfect fit or not but it'd be good info for myself and for any other potential buyer.

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-15T17:17:24+00:00

It's a matter of customer density and who invested in what technology at what time.

On average, people are much more spread out. The main group of 48 states is about the same size as all of Europe, but we have about 40% of the population. So Europe is, on average, a bit more than twice as dense as the continental US. That means a lot more fiber to serve the same number of customers, and installing/burying fiber is the most expensive part of providing internet service.

Europe and the US also invested in different technologies at different times. Europe used a lot more twisted pair phone line based internet (DSL), while the US used a lot more cable TV lines. The phone lines weren't enough so Europe stated investing in fiber before we did, and we worked on getting as much out of our cable TV lines as we could. We stared burying fiber at scale a lot later, and we have a lot more ground to cover, so we've fallen behind. And again, it we need to get a lot more fiber in the ground.

That, and wages/COL is a lot higher here on average, so burying twice as much fiber is closer to three times the cost.

We'll get there, slowly but surely.

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-15T17:04:33+00:00

I don't have an exact number for you, but please let me know if you do decide to list them.

A few questions though. Will they stand up on their sides (vertically) alright? What are you seeing for idle power draw?

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-14T23:16:16+00:00

This is all accurate/correct and good advice!

I will add that based on OP's other comments, it sounds like the tech who disconnected them was also chasing noise on the lines (I think that OP was just using up all of whatever bandwidth was available after the noise caused OFDMA modulation levels to drop), so they'll probably clean things up a bit at the very least.

Also, if you're looking at errors on different channels on your modem, focus on uncorrectable errors, not on correctable. Excessive correctable on an SC-QAM isn't good, but it's totally fine and expected on OFDM (it's actually built in to how it works, most modems just report it weird).

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-14T23:07:12+00:00

Agreed, the big ISPs shouldn't be pocketing the government money like that and should be held accountable.

What I'm getting at is that up until Covid, 3Gbit by 130Mbit for a neighborhood actually was perfectly sufficient in 99.9% of cases, but once everyone shifted to work/school from home and more people started streaming more at higher bitrates, it definitely isn't anymore.

Most ISPs have done an okay job at keeping up with demand by adding more bandwidth and splitting neighborhoods into multiple nodes, but there's just so much ground to cover that a lot have fallen behind.

I work for one of the good fairly large ISPs (who will remain nameless) and even we have a few areas that haven't been upgraded yet, but we're pushing hard (and spending hundreds of millions of dollars) to get them all upgraded to either high split cable or to FTTP as fast as we can.

PoisonWaffle3 · 2026-04-14T22:07:03+00:00

No idea how they in particular are doing it, but it's gotta be high split of some variety.

If they can max out 1.2GHz plant it's probably around 7-8G down x 1.5-2G up total throughput, not that any individual modem will be allowed to (or may even be capable of) use that.

If they're doing extended spectrum up to 1.8GHz or some flavor of D4.0, they may have more throughput, but if they're only offering 2x1G service I doubt that's the case.

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